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Getting a Treo 650 on Saturday, please advise

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Posted by: BEnxD

I'm going in on Saturday because my T-mobile contract ends. Switching back to Cingular and going to get the Treo 650. My place is selling it for $250 + $50 rebate from Cingular with a 1 year contract. Does that sound good?

I also have a few questions:
- Is the in call volume really as soft as people say it is?
- Can I load movies onto my SD card and play it on the Treo?

Thanks guys. Hope to join the Treo family in 2 days.


Posted by: the bishop

1) call volume for me is not bad at all ... I've not gotten a chance to test it in the Cobra yet so I don't know there but in a normal non-loud car driving it's fine.

2) yes. no lag, no chop, nada.


but going Cingular? arghles! good luck!


Posted by: stylez23

get screen protectors! trust me in the long run it'll be worth it

and sd cards can store movies and even the movie player (i use kinoma) and i have about 5 music videos on my treo so far and a couple of games.. im just waiting for my 1gb sd card to come in to put 1 or 2 dvd movies onto it


Posted by: billjoi

$250 - $50 rebate ? = $200 ?? wow! Where?


Posted by: BEnxD

Quote:
Originally posted by billjoi
$250 - $50 rebate ? = $200 ?? wow! Where?


I'm not getting this from a Cingular store but instead a Cingular/Verizon/T-mobile authorized dealer. I'm going back to T-mobile because I have them and also Cingular pre-paid and Cingular reception has really gone up with the ATT merger.

Every shop here has the Treo for $250 + $50 rebate. They also have the P910a for $320 but I think I'm going to stick to the Treo. It looks way better.

Styelz23 - Thanks for the advice. Does the Treo come with a screen protector already? I'm hoping to keep it on until I can order some from eBay. Can you also play full length movies? I'm thinking of loading up some to keep me occupied.

Thanks guys.


Posted by: stylez23

yeah it comes with one.. which im using till my boxwave screen protectors come in.. and yeah as long as you have the room u can watch full length movies, i believe they a run about 150-250mb for a two hour movie


Posted by: BEnxD

Thanks. I looked around and found a program called MMPlayer which plays movies. I don't know if you guys use it or not but it seems like a lot of Treo users use it. Can't wait to get it!

-edit-

I was also wondering, does the headset that comes with the Treo come with 2 earbuds or 1 earbud? Can I use it as normal earphones for playing music?


Posted by: FlyPenFly

Woah, where can I get this price? I am actually switching out from Tmobile too but I'm probably considering a Sprint 650


Posted by: stylez23

Quote:
Originally posted by BEnxD
Thanks. I looked around and found a program called MMPlayer which plays movies. I don't know if you guys use it or not but it seems like a lot of Treo users use it. Can't wait to get it!

-edit-

I was also wondering, does the headset that comes with the Treo come with 2 earbuds or 1 earbud? Can I use it as normal earphones for playing music?


i use kinoma right now to watch music videos that i converted with kinoma producer..

treo comes with the standard 1 earbud headset, you can't use a regular headset because the plug is too big, but there are adapters or "hybrid headsets" a common brand is seidio


Posted by: peterpan2

Quote:
Originally posted by BEnxD
Thanks. I looked around and found a program called MMPlayer which plays movies. I don't know if you guys use it or not but it seems like a lot of Treo users use it. Can't wait to get it!

-edit-

I was also wondering, does the headset that comes with the Treo come with 2 earbuds or 1 earbud? Can I use it as normal earphones for playing music?


The Treo 650 plays movies as is without extra programs. I use a Mac and use Handbrake to convert a full DVD-film to aprox 160 MB Mpeg4 and it plays. However I think the film is a little bit dark and it does not show subtitles

I use my Ericsson P800 stereo earpieces with excellent sound!


Posted by: BEnxD

Have you guys experienced any static with the earpiece? If I remember correctly, on treocentral they were experiencing buzzing/static on the earpieces.


Posted by: BEnxD

I was also wondering if you could change the themes of the Treo. Can you change how the icons look to say, OS X?


Posted by: stylez23

yeah u can get zlauncher and get themes to make it look like a mac or windows system.. its kinda neat


Posted by: BEnxD

That's definitely awesome. I think I'm set to get the phone tomorrow. Hopefully nothing bad happens and I end up with some crap phone.




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